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SubjectRe: [patch 3/3] update ctime and mtime for mmaped write
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On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 23:11 +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
>
> Changes:
> v3:
> o rename is_page_modified to test_clear_page_modified
> v2:
> o set AS_CMTIME flag in clear_page_dirty_for_io() too
> o don't clear AS_CMTIME in file_update_time()
> o check the dirty bit in the page tables
> v1:
> o moved check from __fput() to remove_vma(), which is more logical
> o changed set_page_dirty() to set_page_dirty_mapping in hugetlb.c
> o cleaned up #ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK mess
>
> This patch makes writing to shared memory mappings update st_ctime and
> st_mtime as defined by SUSv3:
>
> The st_ctime and st_mtime fields of a file that is mapped with
> MAP_SHARED and PROT_WRITE shall be marked for update at some point
> in the interval between a write reference to the mapped region and
> the next call to msync() with MS_ASYNC or MS_SYNC for that portion
> of the file by any process. If there is no such call and if the
> underlying file is modified as a result of a write reference, then
> these fields shall be marked for update at some time after the
> write reference.
>
> A new address_space flag is introduced: AS_CMTIME. This is set each
> time a page is dirtied through a userspace memory mapping. This
> includes write accesses via get_user_pages().
>
> Note, the flag is set unconditionally, even if the page is already
> dirty. This is important, because the page might have been dirtied
> earlier by a non-mmap write.
>
> This flag is checked in msync() and munmap()/mremap(), and if set, the
> file times are updated and the flag is cleared.
>
> Msync also needs to check the dirty bit in the page tables, because
> the data might change again after an msync(MS_ASYNC), while the page
> is already dirty and read-write. This also makes the time updating
> work for memory backed filesystems such as tmpfs.
>
> This implementation walks the pages in the synced range, and uses rmap
> to find all the ptes for each page. Non-linear vmas are ignored,
> since the ptes can only be found by scanning the whole vma, which is
> very inefficient.
>
> As an optimization, if dirty pages are accounted, then only walk the
> dirty pages, since the clean pages necessarily have clean ptes. This
> doesn't work for memory backed filesystems, where no dirty accounting
> is done.
>
> An alternative implementation could check for all intersecting vmas in
> the mapping and walk the page tables for each. This would probably be
> more efficient for memory backed filesystems and if the number of
> dirty pages is near the total number of pages in the range.
>
> Fixes Novell Bugzilla #206431.
>
> Inspired by Peter Staubach's patch and the resulting comments.
>
> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
> ---

A few comments..

> Index: linux-2.6.21-rc4-mm1/mm/rmap.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.21-rc4-mm1.orig/mm/rmap.c 2007-03-24 19:03:11.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux-2.6.21-rc4-mm1/mm/rmap.c 2007-03-24 19:34:30.000000000 +0100
> @@ -507,6 +507,43 @@ int page_mkclean(struct page *page)
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(page_mkclean);
>
> /**
> + * test_clear_page_modified - check and clear the dirty bit for all mappings of a page
> + * @page: the page to check
> + */
> +bool test_clear_page_modified(struct page *page)
> +{
> + struct address_space *mapping = page->mapping;

page_mapping(page)? Otherwise that BUG_ON(!mapping) a few lines down
isn't of much use.

> + pgoff_t pgoff = page->index << (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT);
> + struct vm_area_struct *vma;
> + struct prio_tree_iter iter;
> + bool modified = false;
> +
> + BUG_ON(!mapping);
> + BUG_ON(!page_mapped(page));
> +
> + spin_lock(&mapping->i_mmap_lock);
> + vma_prio_tree_foreach(vma, &iter, &mapping->i_mmap, pgoff, pgoff) {
> + if (vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED) {
> + struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;
> + unsigned long addr = vma_address(page, vma);
> + pte_t *pte;
> + spinlock_t *ptl;
> +
> + if (addr != -EFAULT &&
> + (pte = page_check_address(page, mm, addr, &ptl))) {
> + if (ptep_clear_flush_dirty(vma, addr, pte))
> + modified = true;
> + pte_unmap_unlock(pte, ptl);
> + }

Its against coding style to do assignments in conditionals.

> + }
> + }
> + spin_unlock(&mapping->i_mmap_lock);
> + if (page_test_and_clear_dirty(page))
> + modified = true;
> + return modified;
> +}

Why not parametrize page_mkclean() to conditionally wrprotect clean
pages? Something like:

--- mm/rmap.c~ 2007-03-11 17:52:20.000000000 +0100
+++ mm/rmap.c 2007-03-25 14:01:55.000000000 +0200
@@ -432,7 +432,8 @@
return referenced;
}

-static int page_mkclean_one(struct page *page, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
+static int
+page_mkclean_one(struct page *page, struct vm_area_struct *vma, int prot)
{
struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;
unsigned long address;
@@ -448,12 +449,13 @@
if (!pte)
goto out;

- if (pte_dirty(*pte) || pte_write(*pte)) {
+ if (pte_dirty(*pte) || (prot && pte_write(*pte))) {
pte_t entry;

flush_cache_page(vma, address, pte_pfn(*pte));
entry = ptep_clear_flush(vma, address, pte);
- entry = pte_wrprotect(entry);
+ if (prot)
+ entry = pte_wrprotect(entry);
entry = pte_mkclean(entry);
set_pte_at(mm, address, pte, entry);
lazy_mmu_prot_update(entry);
@@ -465,7 +467,8 @@
return ret;
}

-static int page_mkclean_file(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *page)
+static int
+page_mkclean_file(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *page, int prot)
{
pgoff_t pgoff = page->index << (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT);
struct vm_area_struct *vma;
@@ -477,13 +480,13 @@
spin_lock(&mapping->i_mmap_lock);
vma_prio_tree_foreach(vma, &iter, &mapping->i_mmap, pgoff, pgoff) {
if (vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED)
- ret += page_mkclean_one(page, vma);
+ ret += page_mkclean_one(page, vma, prot);
}
spin_unlock(&mapping->i_mmap_lock);
return ret;
}

-int page_mkclean(struct page *page)
+int page_mkclean(struct page *page, int prot)
{
int ret = 0;

@@ -492,7 +495,7 @@
if (page_mapped(page)) {
struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
if (mapping)
- ret = page_mkclean_file(mapping, page);
+ ret = page_mkclean_file(mapping, page, prot);
}
if (page_test_and_clear_dirty(page))
ret = 1;
> Index: linux-2.6.21-rc4-mm1/mm/msync.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.21-rc4-mm1.orig/mm/msync.c 2007-02-04 19:44:54.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux-2.6.21-rc4-mm1/mm/msync.c 2007-03-24 19:34:30.000000000 +0100
> @@ -12,6 +12,85 @@
> #include <linux/mman.h>
> #include <linux/file.h>
> #include <linux/syscalls.h>
> +#include <linux/pagemap.h>
> +#include <linux/rmap.h>
> +#include <linux/pagevec.h>
> +
> +/*
> + * Update ctime/mtime on msync().
> + *
> + * POSIX requires, that the times are updated between a modification
> + * of the file through a memory mapping and the next msync for a
> + * region containing the modification. The wording implies that this
> + * must be done even if the modification was through a different
> + * address space. Ugh.
> + *
> + * Non-linear vmas are too hard to handle and they are non-standard
> + * anyway, so they are ignored for now.
> + *
> + * The "file modified" info is collected from two places:
> + *
> + * - AS_CMTIME flag of the mapping
> + * - the dirty bit of the ptes
> + *
> + * For memory backed filesystems all the pages in the range need to be
> + * examined. In other cases, since dirty pages are accurately
> + * tracked, it is enough to look at the pages with the dirty tag.
> + */
> +static void msync_update_file_time(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> + unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
> +{
> + struct address_space *mapping;
> + struct pagevec pvec;
> + pgoff_t index;
> + pgoff_t end_index;
> + bool modified;
> +
> + if (!vma->vm_file || !(vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED) ||
> + (vma->vm_flags & VM_NONLINEAR))
> + return;
> +
> + mapping = vma->vm_file->f_mapping;
> + modified = test_and_clear_bit(AS_CMTIME, &mapping->flags);
> +
> + pagevec_init(&pvec, 0);
> + index = linear_page_index(vma, start);
> + end_index = linear_page_index(vma, end);
> + while (index < end_index) {
> + int i;
> + int nr_pages = min(end_index - index, (pgoff_t) PAGEVEC_SIZE);
> +
> + if (mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping))
> + nr_pages = pagevec_lookup_tag(&pvec, mapping, &index,
> + PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY, nr_pages);
> + else
> + nr_pages = pagevec_lookup(&pvec, mapping, index,
> + nr_pages);
> + if (!nr_pages)
> + break;
> +
> + for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++) {
> + struct page *page = pvec.pages[i];
> +
> + /* Skip pages which are just being read */
> + if (!PageUptodate(page))
> + continue;
> +
> + lock_page(page);
> + index = page->index + 1;
> + if (page->mapping == mapping &&
> + test_clear_page_modified(page)) {

page_mkclean(page, 0)

> + set_page_dirty(page);

set_page_dirty_mapping() ?

> + modified = true;
> + }
> + unlock_page(page);
> + }
> + pagevec_release(&pvec);
> + }
> +
> + if (modified)
> + file_update_time(vma->vm_file);
> +}
>
> /*
> * MS_SYNC syncs the entire file - including mappings.


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